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Here's an alternative theory: people say what they've heard. If the people around you say [ɔftn̩], you (may) say it too. (I don't rule out a spelling pronunciation, but we shouldn't resort to this explanation if "saying what other people say" covers it.) I'd still count it as a spelling pronounciat...

Are there so few people who have a spouse or love?? I could've sworn I knew of more people than that. Nilikuwa na mpenzi ulikuwa hujajiunga na jukwaa hili, lakini nilimwacha Australia. I had a significant other before you joined this board, but I left him in Australia. Meiner ist gestorben und ich ...

D.N.A. - Maswali ya Polisi
Una maswali mengi kwani wee ni polisi?
You have a lot of questions. What are you, a cop?

Riboribo! Kwaresima! Yay! Lent! Nimetoka kusherekea kwaresima! I just celebrated Lent. Are there so few people who have a spouse or love?? I could've sworn I knew of more people than that. Nilikuwa na mpenzi ulikuwa hujajiunga na jukwaa hili, lakini nilimwacha Australia. I had a significant other b...

Soap wrote:Just saying "widely" is clear in context, I think.sorry can't comment on the rest of the post.

Ha, thanks! Sometimes my word-searching device in my head just gives up in overwhelmment ...

no it hasn't -- there are strong verb ablaut patterns regular enough to be extended by analogy. there are even patterns that are *entirely* analogical in origin, e.g. 'dive', 'sneak', 'sit' Agree. I have a phonemic distinction between a long TRAP vowel (the BAD vowel) and a short TRAP vowel (the LA...

I also naturally use themself and was quite miffed seeing it corrected by a teacher in school.

In some dialects, us appears in the first person singular but only in dative roles (e.g. Give us a kiss!), which I find really interesting because I don't know of any other morphological separation of direct and indirect objects in English. It's not only after "give" either.

I remember learning the word kiln in primary school. The school didn't have one, but at some point we made clay thingies that got sent to a kiln to be kilned in the kiln. It was kind of dumb because even though we were told to avoid air bubbles or thick parts, we were kids, so of course some people'...

I'm actually not sure that's so odd. At least, I know anecdotally that some languages have specialized words for 'to eat'...like 'to eat (anything)' vs. 'to eat a meal', and this distinction is found across a pretty wide variety of languages, too. It's quite common also for sign languages to use di...

2週間前は6周年だった Two weeks ago was my sixth Japanniversary Unahisi upo nyumbani, au uko tayari kwa mabadiliko? Do you feel at home or are you ready for a change? 知らねーーーー >_< I dunnoooooooooooooo :( Ni swali gumu sana! Huenda utajua wakati utakapokuwa sahihi. It's a really difficult question. Maybe you'l...

2週間前は6周年だった Two weeks ago was my sixth Japanniversary Unahisi upo nyumbani, au uko tayari kwa mabadiliko? Do you feel at home or are you ready for a change? 前回言ってたことはね、確かじゃない。マネージャーもあの合併ということをくわしく知らない。本部の人はコミュニケーション苦手だと思う Anyway what i said last time, it’s not certain. Even my manager doesn’t reall...

Mimi nimewahi kufika New Zealand.
I've been to New Zealand.

(Implicit in this, I hope, is that we don't currently live near each other... :( ) Hata kama nisingeshajua, nadhani kwamba ilielea. Even if I didn't know that already, I think it was clear. :-) Sasa umeishi Tokyo kwa muda gani? How long have you lived in Tokyo now? Sasa ni saa 9 na nusu mchana na n...

Rafiki yangu mmoja aliniomba nilale nyumbani kwake usiku mmoja niwatunze paka wawili anaowatunza kwa ajili ya rafiki yake mmoja. Niko kitandani nikiwa na paka anayependeza sana juu ya mkono wangu wa kushoto akikoroma. One of my friends asked me to sleep at her place for one night to cat-sit two cat...

Hapa ni nyuzi Selsiasi nane. Siku hii mwaka mmoja uliopita kulikuwa na barafu nyingi. Sasa kuna mvua kidogo. Niko kazini. Ni saa kumi na nusu mchana na jua linakuchwa. Nje ni pa kijivu. Nilipaswa kuandika mazungumzo ya wawili kwa bosi wangu wanafunzi wake watumie wajizoeze lugha ya ishara yao. Mazu...

I kind of feel like adding "-ass" to adjectives is only natural in attributive position "He's badass" geht nicht bei dir? "He's bad-ass" doesn't work for you? Ni tofauti tu. Hainamaanisha "mbaya sana". Na huenda ningesema "a badass" au "pretty badass" lakini nisingesema "He's badass" tu. That's an ...

Hier freu ich mich auf frischen Schnee im Winter. Wenn es wirklich arschkalt wird, kriegen wir keinen. I look forward to fresh snow in winter here. When it gets really cold-ass, we don't get any. Heute hab ich einen steifen Hals und kein Liniment dafür. Today I've got a stiff neck and no IcyHot. Na...

Nakwenda kwa daktari.
I'm going to the doctor's.

Kipupwe hiki kimekuwa kipole mno. Hakujakuwa na theluji iliyobaki isipokuwa siku moja .
This winter has been really mild. There hasn't been any snow that has stayed apart from one day.

Travis B. wrote:Ich beobachte Indiana Jones, komplett mit Nazis.
I am watching Indiana Jones, complete with Nazis.

Je, namna gani uhuru wao wa kujieleza?
But what about their free speech?

Nilikwenda kwenye mkutano wa Kiswahili. Niliweza kuongea bora zaidi ya mara iliopita, lakini bado naongea taratibu sana. Kulikuwa na mwanaume mwenye sura nzuri na alikuwa karimu, lakini nadhani kwamba anavutiwa na wanawake tu. Sasa ninafikiria nile nini. I went to a Swahili meet-up. I was able to s...

Personally, I would translate ekelhaft as "disgusting" rather than "horrible" (which I'd say is more like furchtbar ) ... So, it's even funnier. Your Dutch is not just bad ... it's nauseating. :mrgreen: Vielen dank, du Stinkstiefel. :P Ich möchte auch gerne mein Deutsch üben, um mein Deutsch zu üben...

I'm curious about when y'all pronounce [ɱ]. I've realised for me it's an allophone of /n/ but never of /m/ ... I might even insert a slight [p] in between /m/ and /f/

symphony
infinitive

For me they're
[ˈsɪm(p)fənɪ̆i̯]
[ɪn͡ɱˈfɪnəɾɪv]~[ɪɱˈfɪnəɾɪv]

Grrowrrr meow grrowrry grrr bow. Bow mek grrowrrr ach oogrry xhrrub, oogrry bow bowl grrr grrowrrr ach-ach, grrowrrr grrowl "WAGRRH WAGRRH!" grrr bow ach-ach. Mountain lions don't like dogs. Dogs make mountain lions climb big trees. A lot of dogs bark at the mountain lion to climb down, and then th...